Editing Manchester Assize Courts (section)

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|name               = Manchester Assize Courts
|image              = The Assize Courts, Manchester (crop).jpg 
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|location           = Strangeways, [[Manchester]], [[Lancashire]]
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|status             = Demolished
|start_date         = 1859
|completion_date    = 1864
|demolition_date    = 1957 <small>(ruins from the [[Manchester Blitz]])
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|building_type      = [[Venetian Gothic architecture|Venetian Gothic]]
|antenna_spire      = {{convert|85|m|ft|abbr=on}}
|roof               = {{convert|80|m|ft|abbr=on}}
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|floor_area         = 7
|architect          = [[Alfred Waterhouse]]
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The '''Manchester Assize Courts''' was a building housing [[law court]]s on Great Ducie Street in the [[Strangeways, Manchester|Strangeways]] district of [[Manchester]], England. It was {{convert|279|ft|m|0|abbr=on}} tall and from 1864 to 1877 the tallest building in Manchester. Widely admired,<ref>{{cite news |title=Assize Courts, Manchester |url=http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/waterhouse/5.html |work=victorianweb.org |accessdate=2011-11-07}}</ref> it has been referred to as one of Britain's 'lost buildings'.<ref>{{cite news |title=One way to help our broken society – rebuild our cities destroyed by post-war vandals |url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100054856/one-way-to-help-our-broken-society-rebuild-our-cities-destroyed-by-post-war-vandals/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100926104357/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100054856/one-way-to-help-our-broken-society-rebuild-our-cities-destroyed-by-post-war-vandals/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 September 2010 |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=23 September 2010 |accessdate=2011-11-07}}</ref> It was severely damaged by wartime bombing in the [[Manchester Blitz]], and then the remains were demolished in 1957.